Gotcha, thanks!

Do you have any more of them… pixels?

Pros:

-Roof repairs almost finished (but it just started raining dammit)

-Got Tempest Rising & Oblivion remastered, two shadow drops of highly anticipated games

-Ordered a new videocard because my six-year old one can’t chug it no more.

Cons:

-Ran out of weed, will have to wait until next week for a fillup

-Work is boring, as always

All in all, not too shabby.

I just ditched it with the release of manifest v3. Couldn’t care less what happens to it now.

Damn, this is with everything on max at 4K with DLSS & Framegen?

Send 'em all our way (EU) I’m sure we’ll find a use for it.

I must admit, it’s not “just” a remaster, but they somehow managed to capture the spirit of '06 when this first came out PERFECTLY. Picture this: I was still in college and studying at home when Oblivion was finally released. I had been waiting for it for a long time (to my young mind back then) and I remember it was a perfectly beautiful, sunny day and I was home alone with no obvious way to get to a game store.

So I asked my elderly neighbor if I could borrow her clunker of a car for “an errand” and drove over an hour to the nearest game shop.

From the game itself I mostly remember how drop-dead gorgeous everything seemed - and how terrible my PC’s performance was back then, especially in outdoors areas.

Today, I experienced the exact same form of awe, followed by the most gorgeous graphics I could imagine, and… 15 fps outdoors. EXACTLY how things used to be when I was a young man.

Magic. Truly a win for Bethesda (after Starfield). Now all I need is a PC who can actually run the damn thing on high with over 60 FPS.

Amen. Added to that I have an extremely common name (both actually) so even if someone were to find that out, they’d still have to sift my shit from all my doppelgangers’.

Store brand is as good or better than A-brands in about 90% of all cases.

Colitis Ulcerosa? My sympathies.

I see Lemmy coming up organically on Reddit all the time now. At first it felt somewhat stunted but the message is definitely spreading.

The enshittification/rent seeking continues. Nothing is sacred.

I hope they reciprocate. Might be a legal takedown order instead though.

I’ve always hated Discord since the very beginning. At least now I have yet another really good reason.

Never used it, never will. Ventrilo for lyfe.

Just ignore Reddit. Pretend it doesn’t even exist. It’ll go the way of Digg soon enough.

This is why LLM’s at their current point are fairly useless except to quickly rewrite some copy-text or sth. I study numismatics and frequently have to research, for example, Roman emperors and what coins they minted. O4 creates these extremely slick-looking charts with info that, at first glance, seem to contain absolutely every detail you could possibly dream of.

Until you try to verify that information with actual facts. Entire paragraphs made up of whole cloth. Sounds 100% acceptable to anyone without more than passing knowledge of the subject, but will not fool actual experts. This is dangerous in my opinion. You can feel like you have all the knowledge at your fingertips, but it’s actually just fucking lies. If I were to do all my research via ChatGPT and would accept its answers as truth, and publish a book based on that, it would (I hope) get absolutely critically panned by experts in the field because it would be filled to the brim with inconsistencies and half-truths that just “sound good”.

That meme about a “digital dumbass who is constantly wrong” rings completely true to me.

Tested with a US VPN. Can confirm it only happens when using a US breakout. You guys are in much more trouble than even the most pessimistic among you are able to grasp at this point.

Terrible sense of style though. Always so incredibly tacky.

I’m amused by the idea that the more rich and powerful these people grow, the more certain “common” things are pretty much out of reach for them: regular friendship, love, family ties. Everything is about power balance and tit-for-tat with these guys. Good luck finding anyone who loves you for “you” and isn’t after your fortune. And even if you do, good luck recognizing it and acting on it!

Amen. I also work in IT and I find the longer I do, the more I loathe new tech stacks and developments. I used to be passionate about new tech and its applications. Now I just want to be left alone where possible.